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Shawn Siegele
Author of the original Zero RB article and 2013 NFFC Primetime Grand Champion. 11-time main event league winner. 2015, 2017, 2018 titles in MFL10 of Death.
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Zero RB in the FFPC $100k Best Ball Tournament; Plus Javonte Williams Arrives
Shawn Siegele
December 6, 2021
The RotoViz tools and Best Ball Workshop provide subscribers a prohibitive advantage in their leagues. Or at least that’s what Shawn claims in his articles. Was he able to keep up the best-ball win streak in 2021? With Week 13 concluding the regular season portion of the FFPC $100k best ball tournament, it’s time to check in on teams and concepts that we featured in…...
Zero RB Heroes Crush Week 12 to Set Up a Crazy Playoff Environment
Shawn Siegele
November 29, 2021
Shawn Siegele looks at the massive weekends from Leonard Fournette, Cordarrelle Patterson, Elijah Mitchell, and A.J. Dillon as fantasy leagues head for the playoffs. If there was any question about what worked in 2021, the dramatic answer arrived in Week 12 with a 44-point performance from Leonard Fournette. All told, four of the top-seven RB performances came from deep options, with Cordarrelle Patterson, Elijah Mitchell,…...
4 Days of FFPC Drafting Remain – Blair Andrews Provides His Favorite Targets in Every Round
Blair Andrews
September 8, 2021
Blair Andrews, the mind behind The Wrong Read, goes through his top targets in every round of a 20-round fantasy draft. Which Year 2 receivers are we targeting everywhere? Which late running backs offer the best way to round out a Zero-RB squad? And who is the next Tee Higgins? There’s one more day before kickoff, so for those of you still drafting tonight (or…...
7 Takeaways from a Week of Main Events That Will Help in Your Big Draft Labor Day Weekend
Shawn Siegele
September 4, 2021
Shawn Siegele examines his FFPC Main Events from this week and analyzes recent ADP changes. He provides seven key takeaways to help you dominate your Labor Day weekend drafts. Over the last week, I’ve had the opportunity to draft with Colm Kelly for RotoViz Overtime, with Dave Caban, Blair Andrews, and Curtis Patrick for Team RotoViz, with Pete Overzet and Pat Kerrane for Ship Chasing,…...
10 Players to Target Late If You Want to Win Your League in the Double-Digit Rounds
Shawn Siegele
July 26, 2021
Shawn Siegele works through a real $100,000 draft to show the importance of executing structurally in the double-digit rounds. In this exercise he profiles the players and tactics necessary to build safety and upside into your rosters. Recently, Colm Kelly, Blair Andrews, and I drafted an FFPC Best Ball Tournament team with the goal of winning the $100,000. We received the 12 slot in our…...
Constructing A Zero RB Monster In An FPPC Best Ball Slim Draft
Tim Talmadge
July 23, 2021
Last week, Shawn Siegele and friend of RotoViz Sal Stefanile co-drafted and live-streamed an FPPC best ball slim draft. You can watch the replay here. I hopped in for a little fun and while it didn’t go fully to plan, I ended up with a squad Shawn labeled “a pure RotoViz branded team.” It’s absolutely true because the strategy was mostly formed by our best…...
Darrell Henderson’s Value Jumps to a Top-24 RB in the Wake of the Cam Akers Injury
Monty Phan
July 21, 2021
Back in April, before the NFL Draft, Shawn Siegele and I drafted a team together in one of the new RotoViz TriFlex FFPC dynasty leagues that had just launched. After drafting our first running back, Chuba Hubbard, in the 10th round, and our second RB, Tony Pollard, in the 12th, we waited until the 15th round to draft our third RB: Darrell Henderson. You probably…...
Stuck With a Terrible Draft Slot? This Evidence-Based Plan Flips the Script to Create Silly Win Rates
Shawn Siegele
July 20, 2021
Stuck with an unfavorable draft slot? Shawn Siegele details the aggressive tactics that allow you to take control of your 2021 fantasy drafts early and put the rest of your league on the defensive. This weekend Colm Kelly and I were joined by special guest Blair Andrews for a bonus episode of RotoViz Overtime. We take aim at the FFPC $100,000 best ball tournament and…...
Reverse Engineering Your FFPC Best Ball Slim Draft Could Be the Key to Winning $100,000
Zachary Krueger
July 8, 2021
Zachary Krueger demonstrates why reverse engineering your FFPC $100,000 best ball tournament team could be the key to winning the grand prize. A few weeks ago I hosted Shawn Siegele on an episode of my best ball live stream, Roster Locked: A Best Ball Show which can be found on the RotoViz YouTube channel. (You should go subscribe before reading on.) You can check out the roster…...
Roster Locked FFPC Tournament Special: Stacks That Bend but Won’t Break and Some That Could Win it All
Zachary Krueger
June 18, 2021
Earlier this week I published Roster Locked Special Part 1: Exploit the Schedule to Win the FFPC $100,000 Best Ball Tournament as Shawn Siegele and I prepare for our Saturday draft on Roster Locked: A Best Ball Show. In Part 1 of this series, we focused on the NFL schedule and discussed our wariness of Week 14, the first week of the playoffs in this tournament…....
Have Drafters Fixed a Key Mistake As They Attempt to Win the $100,000 FFPC Best Ball Tournament?
Shawn Siegele
June 17, 2021
Shawn Siegele examines the behavior of drafters and explains why it gives us confidence in our 2021 draft plan. Zachary Kreuger and I are putting the final touches on our draft plan for the live Roster Locked FFPC $100,000 Best Ball Tournament draft on Saturday. Yesterday, Zach looked at some of the schedule-based elements as we try to run the Week 14-17 gauntlet. In my…...
Early-Round Tactics Are Crucial If You Want to Take Down the FFPC $100,000 Best Ball Tournament
Shawn Siegele
June 9, 2021
In his first look at the FFPC $100,000 best ball tournament, Shawn Siegele breaks down the early-round tactics that separate contenders and pretenders. We’ve written extensively on the FFPC Classic and Superflex options in best ball, helping you take down these contests with insights from the Best Ball Win Rate Explorer and the FFPC Roster Construction Explorer. Today we’ll jump into the FFPC $100,00 best…...
4 Core Elements to More and Better Dynasty Trades, Plus Examples from RotoViz TriFlex Startups
Shawn Siegele
June 7, 2021
Shawn Siegele discusses the importance of trading during dynasty startups and outlines concepts that will help you dominate leagues like the new RotoViz TriFlex Dynasty format from the FFPC. Blair Andrews and I recently participated in a dynasty startup in the awesome RotoViz TriFlex format. This new offering from the FFPC includes superflex, TE Premium, a greater emphasis on wide receivers, and more flex spots…...
RotoViz TriFlex Dynasty and Why Trading Back Is a Win-Now Tactic – The Wrong Read, No. 71
Blair Andrews
May 30, 2021
The goal in any dynasty league is, or at least should be, to put yourself in what Shawn Siegele has called the Permanent Championship Window (PCW). Proponents of the PCW look at the debate between win-now and win-later strategies and ask, “why not both?” Suppose you could win in Year 1 … and also in Year 2, Year 3, and beyond. If winning now and…...
The Post-Draft Sleeper Cheat Sheet You Need Now – Get Ahead of the New Wave of Best Ball Picks
Zachary Krueger
May 13, 2021
With the NFL Draft officially in the books, a quick look at the FFPC Exposures and ADP tool shows a number of players who were ignored pre-draft now going in the late rounds of FFPC best ball drafts. While there’s always risk incurred when drafting some of these late-round darlings at this point in the season, we shouldn’t dismiss them to lack of familiarity. But…...
20 Rounds From a RotoViz TriFlex Dynasty Startup, Including the Draft’s Impact on Trendy Sleeper Picks
Monty Phan
May 11, 2021
Editor’s note: Monty Phan updated his draft diary throughout the 20 rounds of a recent RotoViz TriFlex Dynasty startup. All 20 rounds are now in the book. Get Monty’s thoughts on all the picks, including reflections on how the late rounds might play out differently post-NFL draft. During quarantine last year, one side effect of my boredom was that I joined a bunch of startup…...
High Stakes Drafts Offer Insight Into the Best Value Areas for Rookie Pick Trades
Shawn Siegele
April 22, 2021
Shawn Siegele goes under the hood with high stakes drafts currently in progress. What’s a better way to explore the pricing for rookie drafts than to look at where they’re going in high stakes drafts? With the advent of the RotoViz TriFlex Dynasty leagues in the FFPC, we now have a perfect window into the format used across the dynasty universe. Whether you’re preparing for…...
RotoViz TriFlex Dynasty Leagues – Positional Value and Trade Opportunities in Round 1
Shawn Siegele
April 2, 2021
The 2021 RotoViz TriFlex Dynasty Leagues have launched, and we’re excited to be involved in this fantastic new product from the FFPC. The new format adds a starting WR spot and includes three flexes, one of which can be a QB. So how do you attack this new format which combines the great interface and customer service of the FFPC with a deeper starting lineup?…...
Best Ball Workshop: Playing DEF Correctly in FFPC Leagues Is Like Adding Another Star to Your Roster
Shawn Siegele
February 26, 2021
Shawn Siegele shows you how to gain a big advantage in your FFPC Classic best ball league just by making some simple decisions on defense. The rhetoric around fantasy leagues increasingly focuses on hitting a high win-rate player early and trying to land a sleeper. Of course, this helps. And I’m (very) biased, but I think RotoViz is your leading source of those hits. Last…...
Best Ball Workshop: This Roster Hack Provides FFPC Win Rates Equal to Owning Derrick Henry
Shawn Siegele
February 18, 2021
Want your best ball teams to start with baked-in win rates equivalent to owning Derrick Henry in a record-setting season? Shawn Siegele uses the FFPC Roster Construction Explorer to show you how. Last year Henry rushed 378 times and averaged a career high 5.4 yards per carry. His elite combination of rushing volume and explosiveness produced the NFL’s fourth 2,000-yard rushing season of the last…...
Zero RB in the FFPC $100k Best Ball Tournament; Plus Javonte Williams Arrives
Shawn Siegele
December 6, 2021
The RotoViz tools and Best Ball Workshop provide subscribers a prohibitive advantage in their leagues. Or at least that’s what Shawn claims in his articles. Was he able to keep up the best-ball win streak in 2021? With Week 13 concluding the regular season portion of the FFPC $100k best ball tournament, it’s time to check in on teams and concepts that we featured in…...
Zero RB Heroes Crush Week 12 to Set Up a Crazy Playoff Environment
Shawn Siegele
November 29, 2021
Shawn Siegele looks at the massive weekends from Leonard Fournette, Cordarrelle Patterson, Elijah Mitchell, and A.J. Dillon as fantasy leagues head for the playoffs. If there was any question about what worked in 2021, the dramatic answer arrived in Week 12 with a 44-point performance from Leonard Fournette. All told, four of the top-seven RB performances came from deep options, with Cordarrelle Patterson, Elijah Mitchell,…...
4 Days of FFPC Drafting Remain – Blair Andrews Provides His Favorite Targets in Every Round
Blair Andrews
September 8, 2021
Blair Andrews, the mind behind The Wrong Read, goes through his top targets in every round of a 20-round fantasy draft. Which Year 2 receivers are we targeting everywhere? Which late running backs offer the best way to round out a Zero-RB squad? And who is the next Tee Higgins? There’s one more day before kickoff, so for those of you still drafting tonight (or…...
7 Takeaways from a Week of Main Events That Will Help in Your Big Draft Labor Day Weekend
Shawn Siegele
September 4, 2021
Shawn Siegele examines his FFPC Main Events from this week and analyzes recent ADP changes. He provides seven key takeaways to help you dominate your Labor Day weekend drafts. Over the last week, I’ve had the opportunity to draft with Colm Kelly for RotoViz Overtime, with Dave Caban, Blair Andrews, and Curtis Patrick for Team RotoViz, with Pete Overzet and Pat Kerrane for Ship Chasing,…...
10 Players to Target Late If You Want to Win Your League in the Double-Digit Rounds
Shawn Siegele
July 26, 2021
Shawn Siegele works through a real $100,000 draft to show the importance of executing structurally in the double-digit rounds. In this exercise he profiles the players and tactics necessary to build safety and upside into your rosters. Recently, Colm Kelly, Blair Andrews, and I drafted an FFPC Best Ball Tournament team with the goal of winning the $100,000. We received the 12 slot in our…...
Constructing A Zero RB Monster In An FPPC Best Ball Slim Draft
Tim Talmadge
July 23, 2021
Last week, Shawn Siegele and friend of RotoViz Sal Stefanile co-drafted and live-streamed an FPPC best ball slim draft. You can watch the replay here. I hopped in for a little fun and while it didn’t go fully to plan, I ended up with a squad Shawn labeled “a pure RotoViz branded team.” It’s absolutely true because the strategy was mostly formed by our best…...
Darrell Henderson’s Value Jumps to a Top-24 RB in the Wake of the Cam Akers Injury
Monty Phan
July 21, 2021
Back in April, before the NFL Draft, Shawn Siegele and I drafted a team together in one of the new RotoViz TriFlex FFPC dynasty leagues that had just launched. After drafting our first running back, Chuba Hubbard, in the 10th round, and our second RB, Tony Pollard, in the 12th, we waited until the 15th round to draft our third RB: Darrell Henderson. You probably…...
Stuck With a Terrible Draft Slot? This Evidence-Based Plan Flips the Script to Create Silly Win Rates
Shawn Siegele
July 20, 2021
Stuck with an unfavorable draft slot? Shawn Siegele details the aggressive tactics that allow you to take control of your 2021 fantasy drafts early and put the rest of your league on the defensive. This weekend Colm Kelly and I were joined by special guest Blair Andrews for a bonus episode of RotoViz Overtime. We take aim at the FFPC $100,000 best ball tournament and…...
Reverse Engineering Your FFPC Best Ball Slim Draft Could Be the Key to Winning $100,000
Zachary Krueger
July 8, 2021
Zachary Krueger demonstrates why reverse engineering your FFPC $100,000 best ball tournament team could be the key to winning the grand prize. A few weeks ago I hosted Shawn Siegele on an episode of my best ball live stream, Roster Locked: A Best Ball Show which can be found on the RotoViz YouTube channel. (You should go subscribe before reading on.) You can check out the roster…...
Roster Locked FFPC Tournament Special: Stacks That Bend but Won’t Break and Some That Could Win it All
Zachary Krueger
June 18, 2021
Earlier this week I published Roster Locked Special Part 1: Exploit the Schedule to Win the FFPC $100,000 Best Ball Tournament as Shawn Siegele and I prepare for our Saturday draft on Roster Locked: A Best Ball Show. In Part 1 of this series, we focused on the NFL schedule and discussed our wariness of Week 14, the first week of the playoffs in this tournament…....
Have Drafters Fixed a Key Mistake As They Attempt to Win the $100,000 FFPC Best Ball Tournament?
Shawn Siegele
June 17, 2021
Shawn Siegele examines the behavior of drafters and explains why it gives us confidence in our 2021 draft plan. Zachary Kreuger and I are putting the final touches on our draft plan for the live Roster Locked FFPC $100,000 Best Ball Tournament draft on Saturday. Yesterday, Zach looked at some of the schedule-based elements as we try to run the Week 14-17 gauntlet. In my…...
Early-Round Tactics Are Crucial If You Want to Take Down the FFPC $100,000 Best Ball Tournament
Shawn Siegele
June 9, 2021
In his first look at the FFPC $100,000 best ball tournament, Shawn Siegele breaks down the early-round tactics that separate contenders and pretenders. We’ve written extensively on the FFPC Classic and Superflex options in best ball, helping you take down these contests with insights from the Best Ball Win Rate Explorer and the FFPC Roster Construction Explorer. Today we’ll jump into the FFPC $100,00 best…...
4 Core Elements to More and Better Dynasty Trades, Plus Examples from RotoViz TriFlex Startups
Shawn Siegele
June 7, 2021
Shawn Siegele discusses the importance of trading during dynasty startups and outlines concepts that will help you dominate leagues like the new RotoViz TriFlex Dynasty format from the FFPC. Blair Andrews and I recently participated in a dynasty startup in the awesome RotoViz TriFlex format. This new offering from the FFPC includes superflex, TE Premium, a greater emphasis on wide receivers, and more flex spots…...
RotoViz TriFlex Dynasty and Why Trading Back Is a Win-Now Tactic – The Wrong Read, No. 71
Blair Andrews
May 30, 2021
The goal in any dynasty league is, or at least should be, to put yourself in what Shawn Siegele has called the Permanent Championship Window (PCW). Proponents of the PCW look at the debate between win-now and win-later strategies and ask, “why not both?” Suppose you could win in Year 1 … and also in Year 2, Year 3, and beyond. If winning now and…...
The Post-Draft Sleeper Cheat Sheet You Need Now – Get Ahead of the New Wave of Best Ball Picks
Zachary Krueger
May 13, 2021
With the NFL Draft officially in the books, a quick look at the FFPC Exposures and ADP tool shows a number of players who were ignored pre-draft now going in the late rounds of FFPC best ball drafts. While there’s always risk incurred when drafting some of these late-round darlings at this point in the season, we shouldn’t dismiss them to lack of familiarity. But…...
20 Rounds From a RotoViz TriFlex Dynasty Startup, Including the Draft’s Impact on Trendy Sleeper Picks
Monty Phan
May 11, 2021
Editor’s note: Monty Phan updated his draft diary throughout the 20 rounds of a recent RotoViz TriFlex Dynasty startup. All 20 rounds are now in the book. Get Monty’s thoughts on all the picks, including reflections on how the late rounds might play out differently post-NFL draft. During quarantine last year, one side effect of my boredom was that I joined a bunch of startup…...
High Stakes Drafts Offer Insight Into the Best Value Areas for Rookie Pick Trades
Shawn Siegele
April 22, 2021
Shawn Siegele goes under the hood with high stakes drafts currently in progress. What’s a better way to explore the pricing for rookie drafts than to look at where they’re going in high stakes drafts? With the advent of the RotoViz TriFlex Dynasty leagues in the FFPC, we now have a perfect window into the format used across the dynasty universe. Whether you’re preparing for…...
RotoViz TriFlex Dynasty Leagues – Positional Value and Trade Opportunities in Round 1
Shawn Siegele
April 2, 2021
The 2021 RotoViz TriFlex Dynasty Leagues have launched, and we’re excited to be involved in this fantastic new product from the FFPC. The new format adds a starting WR spot and includes three flexes, one of which can be a QB. So how do you attack this new format which combines the great interface and customer service of the FFPC with a deeper starting lineup?…...
Best Ball Workshop: Playing DEF Correctly in FFPC Leagues Is Like Adding Another Star to Your Roster
Shawn Siegele
February 26, 2021
Shawn Siegele shows you how to gain a big advantage in your FFPC Classic best ball league just by making some simple decisions on defense. The rhetoric around fantasy leagues increasingly focuses on hitting a high win-rate player early and trying to land a sleeper. Of course, this helps. And I’m (very) biased, but I think RotoViz is your leading source of those hits. Last…...
Best Ball Workshop: This Roster Hack Provides FFPC Win Rates Equal to Owning Derrick Henry
Shawn Siegele
February 18, 2021
Want your best ball teams to start with baked-in win rates equivalent to owning Derrick Henry in a record-setting season? Shawn Siegele uses the FFPC Roster Construction Explorer to show you how. Last year Henry rushed 378 times and averaged a career high 5.4 yards per carry. His elite combination of rushing volume and explosiveness produced the NFL’s fourth 2,000-yard rushing season of the last…...
Zero RB in the FFPC $100k Best Ball Tournament; Plus Javonte Williams Arrives
Shawn Siegele
December 6, 2021
The RotoViz tools and Best Ball Workshop provide subscribers a prohibitive advantage in their leagues. Or at least that’s what Shawn claims in his articles. Was he able to keep up the best-ball win streak in 2021? With Week 13 concluding the regular season portion of the FFPC $100k best ball tournament, it’s time to check in on teams and concepts that we featured in…...
Zero RB Heroes Crush Week 12 to Set Up a Crazy Playoff Environment
Shawn Siegele
November 29, 2021
Shawn Siegele looks at the massive weekends from Leonard Fournette, Cordarrelle Patterson, Elijah Mitchell, and A.J. Dillon as fantasy leagues head for the playoffs. If there was any question about what worked in 2021, the dramatic answer arrived in Week 12 with a 44-point performance from Leonard Fournette. All told, four of the top-seven RB performances came from deep options, with Cordarrelle Patterson, Elijah Mitchell,…...
4 Days of FFPC Drafting Remain – Blair Andrews Provides His Favorite Targets in Every Round
Blair Andrews
September 8, 2021
Blair Andrews, the mind behind The Wrong Read, goes through his top targets in every round of a 20-round fantasy draft. Which Year 2 receivers are we targeting everywhere? Which late running backs offer the best way to round out a Zero-RB squad? And who is the next Tee Higgins? There’s one more day before kickoff, so for those of you still drafting tonight (or…...
7 Takeaways from a Week of Main Events That Will Help in Your Big Draft Labor Day Weekend
Shawn Siegele
September 4, 2021
Shawn Siegele examines his FFPC Main Events from this week and analyzes recent ADP changes. He provides seven key takeaways to help you dominate your Labor Day weekend drafts. Over the last week, I’ve had the opportunity to draft with Colm Kelly for RotoViz Overtime, with Dave Caban, Blair Andrews, and Curtis Patrick for Team RotoViz, with Pete Overzet and Pat Kerrane for Ship Chasing,…...
10 Players to Target Late If You Want to Win Your League in the Double-Digit Rounds
Shawn Siegele
July 26, 2021
Shawn Siegele works through a real $100,000 draft to show the importance of executing structurally in the double-digit rounds. In this exercise he profiles the players and tactics necessary to build safety and upside into your rosters. Recently, Colm Kelly, Blair Andrews, and I drafted an FFPC Best Ball Tournament team with the goal of winning the $100,000. We received the 12 slot in our…...
Constructing A Zero RB Monster In An FPPC Best Ball Slim Draft
Tim Talmadge
July 23, 2021
Last week, Shawn Siegele and friend of RotoViz Sal Stefanile co-drafted and live-streamed an FPPC best ball slim draft. You can watch the replay here. I hopped in for a little fun and while it didn’t go fully to plan, I ended up with a squad Shawn labeled “a pure RotoViz branded team.” It’s absolutely true because the strategy was mostly formed by our best…...
Darrell Henderson’s Value Jumps to a Top-24 RB in the Wake of the Cam Akers Injury
Monty Phan
July 21, 2021
Back in April, before the NFL Draft, Shawn Siegele and I drafted a team together in one of the new RotoViz TriFlex FFPC dynasty leagues that had just launched. After drafting our first running back, Chuba Hubbard, in the 10th round, and our second RB, Tony Pollard, in the 12th, we waited until the 15th round to draft our third RB: Darrell Henderson. You probably…...
Stuck With a Terrible Draft Slot? This Evidence-Based Plan Flips the Script to Create Silly Win Rates
Shawn Siegele
July 20, 2021
Stuck with an unfavorable draft slot? Shawn Siegele details the aggressive tactics that allow you to take control of your 2021 fantasy drafts early and put the rest of your league on the defensive. This weekend Colm Kelly and I were joined by special guest Blair Andrews for a bonus episode of RotoViz Overtime. We take aim at the FFPC $100,000 best ball tournament and…...
Reverse Engineering Your FFPC Best Ball Slim Draft Could Be the Key to Winning $100,000
Zachary Krueger
July 8, 2021
Zachary Krueger demonstrates why reverse engineering your FFPC $100,000 best ball tournament team could be the key to winning the grand prize. A few weeks ago I hosted Shawn Siegele on an episode of my best ball live stream, Roster Locked: A Best Ball Show which can be found on the RotoViz YouTube channel. (You should go subscribe before reading on.) You can check out the roster…...
Roster Locked FFPC Tournament Special: Stacks That Bend but Won’t Break and Some That Could Win it All
Zachary Krueger
June 18, 2021
Earlier this week I published Roster Locked Special Part 1: Exploit the Schedule to Win the FFPC $100,000 Best Ball Tournament as Shawn Siegele and I prepare for our Saturday draft on Roster Locked: A Best Ball Show. In Part 1 of this series, we focused on the NFL schedule and discussed our wariness of Week 14, the first week of the playoffs in this tournament…....
Have Drafters Fixed a Key Mistake As They Attempt to Win the $100,000 FFPC Best Ball Tournament?
Shawn Siegele
June 17, 2021
Shawn Siegele examines the behavior of drafters and explains why it gives us confidence in our 2021 draft plan. Zachary Kreuger and I are putting the final touches on our draft plan for the live Roster Locked FFPC $100,000 Best Ball Tournament draft on Saturday. Yesterday, Zach looked at some of the schedule-based elements as we try to run the Week 14-17 gauntlet. In my…...
Early-Round Tactics Are Crucial If You Want to Take Down the FFPC $100,000 Best Ball Tournament
Shawn Siegele
June 9, 2021
In his first look at the FFPC $100,000 best ball tournament, Shawn Siegele breaks down the early-round tactics that separate contenders and pretenders. We’ve written extensively on the FFPC Classic and Superflex options in best ball, helping you take down these contests with insights from the Best Ball Win Rate Explorer and the FFPC Roster Construction Explorer. Today we’ll jump into the FFPC $100,00 best…...
4 Core Elements to More and Better Dynasty Trades, Plus Examples from RotoViz TriFlex Startups
Shawn Siegele
June 7, 2021
Shawn Siegele discusses the importance of trading during dynasty startups and outlines concepts that will help you dominate leagues like the new RotoViz TriFlex Dynasty format from the FFPC. Blair Andrews and I recently participated in a dynasty startup in the awesome RotoViz TriFlex format. This new offering from the FFPC includes superflex, TE Premium, a greater emphasis on wide receivers, and more flex spots…...
RotoViz TriFlex Dynasty and Why Trading Back Is a Win-Now Tactic – The Wrong Read, No. 71
Blair Andrews
May 30, 2021
The goal in any dynasty league is, or at least should be, to put yourself in what Shawn Siegele has called the Permanent Championship Window (PCW). Proponents of the PCW look at the debate between win-now and win-later strategies and ask, “why not both?” Suppose you could win in Year 1 … and also in Year 2, Year 3, and beyond. If winning now and…...
The Post-Draft Sleeper Cheat Sheet You Need Now – Get Ahead of the New Wave of Best Ball Picks
Zachary Krueger
May 13, 2021
With the NFL Draft officially in the books, a quick look at the FFPC Exposures and ADP tool shows a number of players who were ignored pre-draft now going in the late rounds of FFPC best ball drafts. While there’s always risk incurred when drafting some of these late-round darlings at this point in the season, we shouldn’t dismiss them to lack of familiarity. But…...
20 Rounds From a RotoViz TriFlex Dynasty Startup, Including the Draft’s Impact on Trendy Sleeper Picks
Monty Phan
May 11, 2021
Editor’s note: Monty Phan updated his draft diary throughout the 20 rounds of a recent RotoViz TriFlex Dynasty startup. All 20 rounds are now in the book. Get Monty’s thoughts on all the picks, including reflections on how the late rounds might play out differently post-NFL draft. During quarantine last year, one side effect of my boredom was that I joined a bunch of startup…...
High Stakes Drafts Offer Insight Into the Best Value Areas for Rookie Pick Trades
Shawn Siegele
April 22, 2021
Shawn Siegele goes under the hood with high stakes drafts currently in progress. What’s a better way to explore the pricing for rookie drafts than to look at where they’re going in high stakes drafts? With the advent of the RotoViz TriFlex Dynasty leagues in the FFPC, we now have a perfect window into the format used across the dynasty universe. Whether you’re preparing for…...
RotoViz TriFlex Dynasty Leagues – Positional Value and Trade Opportunities in Round 1
Shawn Siegele
April 2, 2021
The 2021 RotoViz TriFlex Dynasty Leagues have launched, and we’re excited to be involved in this fantastic new product from the FFPC. The new format adds a starting WR spot and includes three flexes, one of which can be a QB. So how do you attack this new format which combines the great interface and customer service of the FFPC with a deeper starting lineup?…...
Best Ball Workshop: Playing DEF Correctly in FFPC Leagues Is Like Adding Another Star to Your Roster
Shawn Siegele
February 26, 2021
Shawn Siegele shows you how to gain a big advantage in your FFPC Classic best ball league just by making some simple decisions on defense. The rhetoric around fantasy leagues increasingly focuses on hitting a high win-rate player early and trying to land a sleeper. Of course, this helps. And I’m (very) biased, but I think RotoViz is your leading source of those hits. Last…...
Best Ball Workshop: This Roster Hack Provides FFPC Win Rates Equal to Owning Derrick Henry
Shawn Siegele
February 18, 2021
Want your best ball teams to start with baked-in win rates equivalent to owning Derrick Henry in a record-setting season? Shawn Siegele uses the FFPC Roster Construction Explorer to show you how. Last year Henry rushed 378 times and averaged a career high 5.4 yards per carry. His elite combination of rushing volume and explosiveness produced the NFL’s fourth 2,000-yard rushing season of the last…...
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